April is the cruelest month. Lilac grows on the wasteland, which combines memory and desire, and makes the spring rain rush those slow roots and buds.
2. Under the yellow fog at dawn in winter, a group of people filed across London Bridge. The number is so large that I didn't expect death to destroy many people. Sigh, short and rare, spit it out, everyone's eyes are fixed on their feet.
My friend, blood shakes my heart. The extraordinary courage to sacrifice at this moment can never be recovered in a prudent era. With this and only this, we exist.
Data expansion:
The Waste Land is a long poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot, an English poet. The Waste Land consists of five chapters: the funeral of the dead, games, fire commandments, death in the water and the words of thunder. Poets use a lot of allusions, including legends and myths, classical literature such as Dante and Shakespeare, and religious elements such as Buddhism and the Bible.
It even contains relevant information such as linguistics, anthropology and philosophy. These allusions are not only the "objective counterparts" of the poet's emotions, but also bear the whole poetic structure through various metaphors.
Creation background
Wasteland released on 1922. At that time, after World War I, western society lost its belief in God, traditional values gradually declined, new values were not yet established, and people were full of despair for society. At this time, the wasteland appeared. This poem expresses the disillusionment of the western generation and is regarded as an epoch-making work in modern western literature.
Brief introduction of the author
T Eliot (1888- 1965) is a famous English modernist poet and literary critic. 1888 was born in Missouri, USA on September 26th. From 65438 to 0906, he entered Harvard University to study philosophy, then went to Oxford University in England, and then stayed in England to teach and be a clerk. 1908 began to create.
There are poems such as Pruefer Locke and Other Observed Things, Selected Poems and Quartet. As a representative poem, The Waste Land expresses the spiritual disillusionment of the western generation and is regarded as an epoch-making work in modern western literature. 1948 won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "innovating modern poetry and achieving outstanding pioneers".